Republicans pissed at WHO for discovering RoundUp Causes Cancer. NOT The Onion..

[CousinIT]

GOP threatens to cut off U.S. funding for the World Health Organization's cancer research over its finding that an active ingredient in herbicide Roundup is probably carcinogenic to humans.

Link to tweet

https://www.apnews.com/716e2a6e6ff14f1b8920c17e61c64353/GOP-lawmakers-take-aim-at-cancer-research-group-over-Roundup

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican lawmakers are threatening to cut off U.S. funding for the World Health Organization’s cancer research program over its finding that the active ingredient in the herbicide Roundup is probably carcinogenic to humans.

House Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith said Tuesday that the 2015 conclusion by the International Agency for Research on Cancer was fundamentally flawed and relied on cherry-picked science. The Texas lawmaker said he has serious concerns about anti-industry bias and a lack of transparency within the program, which is based in Lyon, France.

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IARC’s program assesses the hazard of whether chemicals can cause cancer in humans, often relying on studies where high doses were fed or injected into rats and mice to see whether they would develop tumors. The EPA’s risk assessments, which sometimes rely on industry-funded studies, look at the long-term threat pesticides and herbicides pose based on the anticipated uses and the relatively low levels of exposure expected for humans and animals.

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Records compiled by the watchdog group Center for Responsive Politics show Monsanto has spent heavily on federal lobbying in recent years, with more than $4.3 million in spending during 2017. The company’s executives and political action committee made about $600,000 in federal political donations during the 2016 election cycle, with the bulk of the cash going to farm-state Republicans.

Jennifer Sass, a scientist with the advocacy group Natural Resources Defense Council, defended the IARC’s results at the congressional hearing, saying the well-respected international group was the target of a well-financed campaign by the pesticide industry seeking to discredit its findings.

“This hearing is about the ability of a public health agency to call a carcinogen a carcinogen, even if it makes a huge amount of money for a powerful corporation,” Sass said Tuesday. “Are we willing to sell out the public’s right to know about harmful chemicals in the places we work live, and play, just so that Monsanto Co. can sell more glyphosate?”

[MrsCoffee]

1. Because fuck everything apparently.

When you get cancer you can just go visit Trump's wall. I heard that shit will cure anything.

[malaise]

2. Good effin' grief

This Kakistocracy is shameless

Get thee to the greatest page

[erronis]

7. My greek tennis partner explained kakistrocacy to me - thanks for the memory

Unfortunately he passed away a few years ago, still playing tennis into his 80s.

We talked about a lot of those words that describe the clustering of people with money and power. My contribution was oleocracy - oil robber barons.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. You see, the entire world must accept the propaganda of our corporate masters.

[Historic NY]

4. And just the other day....

[link:http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-pesticide-cancer-20171218-story.html|]

[link:http://www.newsweek.com/monsanto-weed-killer-roundup-does-not-cause-cancer-new-study-shows-707260|]

[link:https://www.snopes.com/monsanto-suppressing-evidence-of-cancerous-herbicide-in-food/|]

[link:https://www.march-against-monsanto.com/report-snopes-com-caught-heavily-editing-lying-about-monsanto-chemicals-in-our-food-supply/|]

[link:https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2017/12/27/475348.htm|]

[link:https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-pesticides-glyphosate/u-s-epa-says-glyphosate-not-likely-to-be-carcinogenic-to-people-idUSKBN1EE2XHhttp://|]

[link:http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/soapbox/article194490339.html|]

[pandr32]

5. Soon they will outlaw truth

They will fill the universities with quack professors, the schools with Christian fundamentalists, and either use scientists to quietly serve their wants and needs or round them up and execute them. Us liberals will be arrested and thrown in for-profit prisons.

[ismnotwasm]

6. Geez I hope they dont find out apple seeds are poisonous

[Progressive dog]

22. Johnny

spread those trees with their deadly seeds all over the place. They better hide.

[dlk]

8. More Kill the Messenger from Republicans

Business as usual from the profits over people GOP.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

9. Somebody needs to tell them

about the health benefits of Oxygen

[47of74]

10. and water.

[spanone]

11. Kill Me. file under 'shit you can't make up'

[dchill]

12. GOP Corollary to Costanza's Law:

If you don't believe it, then it's a lie.

[TheBlackAdder]

13. Yummy! Just when I wanted to eat some more RoundUp Ready II crops, such as corn and soy!

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Nothing says "wholesome" like eating crops slathered and bathed multiple times in an Agent Orange derivative.

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[Chipper Chat]

14. Have you visited the weed-killer aisle at Lowes lately?

The main head-level shelf is full of Roundup. Evidently it is popular. For god's sake - no one wants to see a dandelion growing between cracks in their sidewalk. Pour on another gallon! What hun? Three of our neighbors were just diagnosed with cancer? Oh, my, I wonder what caused it?

[lsewpershad]

15. Why

do republicans seem seem hell bent on destroying the world? Is it because they feel they will not be touched?

[niyad]

16. they are the chosen ones, don't you know?

[lostnfound]

17. Plus it kills the frogs.

Makes the gelatinous cover of the eggs break down if I recall.
Frogs are not Roundup Ready.

[RandomAccess]

18. We've known this -- and more -- for years now.

19:21 8/2/2017
Just Released Docs Show Monsanto 'Executives Colluding With Corrupted EPA Officials to Manipulate Scientific Data'
https://www.ecowatch.com/monsanto-papers-2467891575.html


00:07 4/14/2017
Roundup’s Toxic Chemical Glyphosate, Found in 100% of California Wines Tested
http://www.healthy-holistic-living.com/roundups-toxic-chemical-glyphosate-found-100-california-wines-tested.html


14:26 5/4/2017
Roundup Exposure Led To NHL Diagnosis For Detroit Worker, Lawsuit Claims
http://www.aboutlawsuits.com/detroit-employee-roundup-lawsuit-125937/#sthash.wurKbOdG.gbpl
A Detroit city worker has filed a product liability lawsuit against Monsanto, indicating that she was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma after years of exposure to the weedkiller Roundup while fighting invasive plant species for the city.


11:28 3/5/2017
Court Rules Against Monsanto, Allows California To Put Cancer Warning On Roundup
January 27, 2017 http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2017/01/27/court-rules-against-monsanto-allows-california-to-put-cancer-warning-on-roundup/#.WLI2pDDXjzM.facebook


12:23 5/2/2017
EU weed-killer evidence 'written by Monsanto' https://euobserver.com/environment/137741
The EU's conclusion that a potentially dangerous weed-killer was safe to sell was partially based on scientific evidence that was written or influenced by Monsanto, the manufacturer of the product, an investigation by EUobserver and Dutch magazine OneWorld has revealed.
Earlier this year, a US court released a cache of hundreds of Monsanto's internal emails that showed the firm's involvement in at least two academic reports on glyphosate, sold under the trade name Roundup.
A Monsanto employee admits in one of the emails that the company wrote a study on glyphosate and later attributed the work to academics.
Another study on glyphosate was “redesigned” with help of company scientists in order to create a more favourable outcome, the internal emails suggest.
EUobserver and OneWorld have discovered that both of the studies were relied on by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) when it evaluated the safety of glyphosate in 2015 as part of the EU licence renewal process.



18:17 3/1/2017
37 MILLION BEES FOUND DEAD In Ontario, Canada After Large GMO Corn Field Planted
http://theindigenousamerican.com/2017/02/28/37-million-bees-found-dead-in-ontario-canada-after-large-gmo-corn-field-planted/


17:14 10/10/2016
Largest Study of GM Crops Yield Surprising Results
http://interestingengineering.com/largest-study-of-gm-crops-yields-surprising-results/
While pesticide use by farmers who planted the GM maize seeds dropped by 11.2 percent, herbicide use only dropped 1.3 percent. With soybeans, modified to survive herbicides, farmers reported increasing their herbicide use by a whopping 28 percent. Ciliberto explained why this might be:
“In the beginning, there was a reduction in herbicide use, but over time the use of chemicals increased because farmers were having to add new chemicals as weeds developed a resistance to glyphosate. Evidence suggests that weeds are becoming more resistant and farmers are having to use additional chemicals, and more of them. I did not expect to see such a strong pattern.”


14:21 8/23/2016
Researchers Find RoundUp Responsible for Toxic Algae Blooms in Great Lakes http://www.realfarmacy.com/roundup-algae/
Ohio — Glyphosate, the main ingredient found in Monsanto’s best-selling herbicide, RoundUp, has poisoned Lake Erie.
Scientists from Ohio Northern University (ONU) in the U.S. have discovered that glyphosate is largely responsible for an increase in harmful algae blooms that contaminate lake water and kill off life dependent upon this habitat.
Namely, dissolved reactive phosphorous (DRP) has been contaminating Lake Erie and the Maumee watershed. This DRP comes from surrounding farms that rely on Monsanto’s weedkiller to grow their crops. The runoff ends up in the lakes, killing fish and contaminating the water.
Though Lake Erie’s trouble with phosphorous is not new, there has been an alarming increase in DRP, which caused scientists to question its probable origins.
Christopher Spiese, a chemist at Ohio Northern University suggests that an increase in the use of glyphosate is causing the problem. DRP loads in Lake Erie have been increasing since the early 1990s — the same time that RoundUp was being sold to farmers across the U.S.


15:08 8/4/2016
Roundup’s Glyphosate found in tampons http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028072350
Apparently there are a handful of people herabouts who are gung ho about having glyphosate in their wine. They will probably flock to this thread also to praise the fact, or at least to minimize, the fact that the herbicide is also found now in tampons.
But level headed people who have no interest other than good health, will regard this needless pollution of tampons with chemical poisons as a heinous corporate betrayal of their most intimate trust.
"According to a new study by the University of La Plata in Argentina,most tampons (at least 85 per cent), cotton balls and sanitary products contain glyphosate: an ingredient that has been ruled as "probably carcinogenic" by the World Health Organization, notes RT news.
"The result of this research is very serious. When you use cotton or gauze to heal wounds or thinking they are sterilized products, contaminated with a carcinogenic substance," said pediatrician Vazquez Medardo Avila in the Spanish study..."
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/10/26/tampons-carcinogens_n_8392912.html



Nine Out of 10 Americans Tested Positive for Monsanto's Cancer-Linked Weedkiller Glyphosate
A probable human carcinogen is found in far too many foods
What makes that figure even more alarming is that many of you who sent in urine samples for testing probably eat more organic than non-organic food. Which suggests that either your organic food has been contaminated and/or you’re being exposed to glyphosate via unknown sources.
Worse yet? Children had the highest levels.
The testing, carried out by a laboratory at UC San Francisco, was the first-ever comprehensive and validated LC/MS/MS testing project to be carried out across America. According to the results, people who live in the west and mid-west tested higher than those living in other regions of the country.
http://www.alternet.org/food/nine-out-10-americans-tested-positive-glyphosate


21:34 2/11/2016
15 Health Problems Linked to Monsanto’s Roundup
By Alexis Baden-Mayer, Organic Consumers Association
Monsanto invented the herbicide glyphosate and brought it to market under the trade name Roundup in 1974, after DDT was banned. But it wasn’t until the late 1990s that the use of Roundup surged, thanks to Monsanto’s ingenious marketing strategy. The strategy? Genetically engineer seeds to grow food crops that could tolerate high doses of Roundup. With the introduction of these new GE seeds, farmers could now easily control weeds on their corn, soy, cotton, canola, sugar beets and alfalfa crops—crops that thrived while the weeds around them were wiped out by Roundup.
Eager to sell more of its flagship herbicide, Monsanto also encouraged farmers to use Roundup as a dessicant, to dry out all of their crops so they could harvest them faster. So Roundup is now routinely sprayed directly on a host of non-GMO crops, including wheat, barley, oats, canola, flax, peas, lentils, soybeans, dry beans and sugar cane.
Between 1996 – 2011, the widespread use of Roundup Ready GMO crops increased herbicide use in the U.S. by 527 million pounds—even though Monsanto claimed its GMO crops would reduce pesticide and herbicide use.
Monsanto has falsified data on Roundup’s safety, and marketed it to parks departments and consumers as “environmentally friendly” and “biodegradable, to encourage its use it on roadsides, playgrounds, golf courses, schoolyards, lawns and home gardens. A French court ruled those marketing claims amounted to false advertising.
Continue here to see the list of health problems associated with glyphosate/Roundup:
http://ecowatch.com/2015/01/23/health-problems-linked-to-monsanto-roundup/

[CanSocDem]

25. Good Job. Thanx for posting. n/t

[DFW]

19. A few years back on DU

We used to have a few lurking posters who would only show up to defend anything Monsanto did (GMO food, Roundup, e.g.).

I wonder if they'll resurface here now with Monsanto again in the news, or has their contract run out?

[NickB79]

20. The IARC also classifies alcohol as a carcinogen, fyi

https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-health-cancer-alcohol/how-alcohol-damages-stem-cell-dna-and-increases-cancer-risk-idUKKBN1ES1N2?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews

Moral of the story: everything is dangerous in high enough quantities.

[Gothmog]

21. Who is surprised by this?

[Cha]

23. That shit is Dangerous.. I moved

to the other side of the Island to get away from it.

Monsanto and it types are all over the West side spraying Roundup.

Of course the pubbies don't want to hear it.. but how would they like it sprayed around them.. to show it's "safe"?

[UpInArms]

24. This statement from Monsanto reminds me of how everything the orange menace

doesn't like is fake ...

"We’re pleased that serious questions are being asked about the discredited IARC opinion and the real harm it is causing to American farmers,” said Scott Partridge, Monsanto’s vice president of global strategy.

[secondwind]

27. WTF??!? How much more of this crap can we be expected to take?